The Genealogist has released Land Tax Records for the County of Oxfordshire cover the period 1910-1915. This collaboration with the National Archives has reached a major landmark with over 2 million records in this collection, covering all boroughs of Greater London plus Middlesex, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire & West Hertfordshire, & now the newly added Oxfordshire. #Genealogy #landtax

https://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/press-release/2023/historic-records-and-maps-for-oxfordshire-launched-online/

Nice short, accessible summary of the last century of economic research on the #Pennsylvania experience with the #landtax https://schalkenbach.org/wp-content/uploads/What-happened-when-PA-taxed-land.pdf #housing #taxreform #equity

I just calculated everything we paid for #SubduedSocial hosting & domain registration this year so far, and our donation rate is looking good enough to cover costs with a bit of safety margin. So I went ahead and made a voluntary #LandTax donation to the Lhaq'temish Foundation equivalent to 10% of our hosting costs. I haven't found a way to do recurring donations to them or any other local native nonprofit, so I'll just do it periodically by hand. https://nativegov.org/news/voluntary-land-taxes/ https://www.lhaqtemish.org/

In 2017, the Welsh Government introduced its own taxation policy for transactions involving the sales and leasing of land and buildings.

Alma Economics was commissioned by the Welsh Government to conduct an independent review of the Land Transaction Tax and Anti-avoidance of Devolved Taxes Act (LTTA).

You can read our full report here:
https://www.gov.wales/independent-review-land-transaction-tax-and-anti-avoidance-devolved-taxes-wales-act-2017

#landtransactiontax #landtax #landpolicy #publicpolicy #wales #cymru #welshgovernment #research #taxpayers #tax

Greens push for billions worth of developer profit taxes in NSW https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/02/10/nsw-greens-property-profit-tax/ #corporateprofits #NewSouthWales #StatePolitics #propertytaxes #landrezoning #nswgreens #words_600 #Politics #landtax #greens #News #tax

#LandTax #Economics #Economy #PoliticalEconomy: "I have long been a supporter of taxing land value. Such a tax would be economically efficient and morally just. But it has been politically impossible: the landowning interest, which now includes a large part of the population as owner-occupiers, has been too strong. This is a tragedy. Now that western politicians are struggling with low growth, stressed public finances, high inequality, intergenerational tensions and an unstable financial system, they need to consider such a fundamental change in what is taxed.

The idea of taxing the rental value of land is most closely associated with the 19th-century American Henry George. But Adam Smith, David Ricardo, James Mill and his son, John Stuart Mill, all shared the same view. Thereafter, foolishly, economists began to incorporate land (which includes all non-produced natural assets) into produced capital. This then led to the neoclassical “two factor” models of the economy, which are grossly misleading. As a result, taxes on land were increasingly considered in the context of taxes on wealth, even though natural resources are quite different from the capital stock created out of effort and foregone consumption.”

https://www.ft.com/content/fadfbd9e-29ca-4d53-b69a-2497cc3ed95d

I heard they're making a "Dungeons & Dragons"-branded version of the Monopoly board game, and my 1st thought was:

Bring back original anti-capitalist Monopoly...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Monopoly

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Landlord%27s_Game

#fz_links #gameing #BoardGames #georgism #LandTax